nanny nanny boo boo!
Jun. 14th, 2005 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderdustRemember the crazy eBay lady? (No, not ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shrijani, I mean the one who kept e-mailing us because she wanted the mobile for herself).
She e-mailed me again yesterday, trying to convince me to put the mobile up for auction becauseshrijani refused to sell it to her. (Oh, that's smart. Telling me that you broke eBay rules to see if you could get someone to shaft me, but since it didn't work, you want me to do you a favor. Uh huh. Right. And you did this by sending messages through the eBay system. What a bright girl you are!)
So, I reported her. After all, she had sent me 5 e-mails about this thing, and I don't know how many she sent toshrijani.
Now she's e-mailed both of us AGAIN, claiming that I'm a mean person for reporting her. How dare I do that, when she was offering me a fair price for the item and she has to take care of 5 kids and couldn't bid at the last minute because her computer crashed! *hand to forehead*
When you see an item that you want and are willing to pay $75 for it, there's an easy way to do it without watching it constantly.
Straight from the eBay help files:
So she could have bid her $75, looked at the auction once a week or so, and won. She probably would have ended up paying only $42 or so, since I think my max bid was $39.19 (or something like that).
But she never made a single bid. Not one. And now she's making a big fuss because she wanted it and didn't get it.
I don't feel too bad for her. That's how these things go. I've certainly lost auctions before (and I actually bid on the items!), and I didn't send out a bunch of e-mails begging people to sell the items to me anyway. Life goes on; they're just things. Nice things, but just things.
In any case, I'm ignoring the last e-mail I got from Psycho Lady, and will really enjoy my mobile when it arrives. I'd take pictures of myself opening the box, pulling it out, and hanging it in my house -- and then send her the pictures! ha ha! -- but that probably would be mean spirited. ;)
shrijani, I mean the one who kept e-mailing us because she wanted the mobile for herself).She e-mailed me again yesterday, trying to convince me to put the mobile up for auction because
shrijani refused to sell it to her. (Oh, that's smart. Telling me that you broke eBay rules to see if you could get someone to shaft me, but since it didn't work, you want me to do you a favor. Uh huh. Right. And you did this by sending messages through the eBay system. What a bright girl you are!)So, I reported her. After all, she had sent me 5 e-mails about this thing, and I don't know how many she sent to
shrijani.Now she's e-mailed both of us AGAIN, claiming that I'm a mean person for reporting her. How dare I do that, when she was offering me a fair price for the item and she has to take care of 5 kids and couldn't bid at the last minute because her computer crashed! *hand to forehead*
When you see an item that you want and are willing to pay $75 for it, there's an easy way to do it without watching it constantly.
Straight from the eBay help files:
Here's how bidding on eBay works:
1. When you place a bid, you enter the maximum amount you'd be willing to pay for the item. Your maximum amount is kept confidential from other bidders and the seller.
2. The eBay system compares your bid to those of the other bidders.
3. The system places bids on your behalf, using only as much of your bid as is necessary to maintain your high bid position (or to meet the reserve price). The system will bid up to your maximum amount.
4. If another bidder has a higher maximum, you'll be outbid. BUT, if no other bidder has a higher maximum, you win the item. And you could pay significantly less than your maximum price! This means you don't have to keep coming back to re-bid every time another bid is placed.This bidding system does not apply to Multiple Item Auctions (Dutch Auctions). In Reserve Price Auctions, if your maximum bid is the first to be greater than the seller's reserve price, the eBay system will automatically jump the price up to meet the reserve, and bidding will continue from there.
So she could have bid her $75, looked at the auction once a week or so, and won. She probably would have ended up paying only $42 or so, since I think my max bid was $39.19 (or something like that).
But she never made a single bid. Not one. And now she's making a big fuss because she wanted it and didn't get it.
I don't feel too bad for her. That's how these things go. I've certainly lost auctions before (and I actually bid on the items!), and I didn't send out a bunch of e-mails begging people to sell the items to me anyway. Life goes on; they're just things. Nice things, but just things.
In any case, I'm ignoring the last e-mail I got from Psycho Lady, and will really enjoy my mobile when it arrives. I'd take pictures of myself opening the box, pulling it out, and hanging it in my house -- and then send her the pictures! ha ha! -- but that probably would be mean spirited. ;)
